“I appreciated most in this class was being reminded of the distinction between the content of a project and the visual language the photographers applies to tell the story.
”— Marc Schroeder, Berlin

Corinne Noordenbos is a photographer and educator.
She has a long career as a portrait and documentary photographer working for a variety of editorials. In her own projects, she concentrates on daily matters, often with a personal starting point. Her series of Modern Madonna, was made just after she became a mother herself. Her project about Alzheimer after her mother was diagnosed with the disease. Her work has been exhibited all over the world.
Her contribution to education in the Netherlands has impacted on the development of photography internationally. Her former students are now at the forefront of contemporary practice and the development of the book form can be clearly celebrated in the work of former students like Rob Hornstra, Vivianne Sassen and Wassink Lundgren amongst many others. Corinne has been Head of Photography at the Royal Academy of Art (KABK) in The Hague until April 2015.

Noordenbos was born in Amsterdam where she still lives and works.
She got her education at the Gerrit Rietveld Academy and the Rijksacademie in Amsterdam.
As a freelancer she has worked for a large variety of Dutch magazines making portraits and documentaries.

You are lucky, we had a sudden cancellation!
So take your pick and submit!
Workshop is part of a wonderful festival in sunny Zagreb, with lectures as well of the following colleagues: Pieter Hugo, Anouk kruithof, Christina de Middel and Dana Lixenberg
September 6 tot 9
For details look at ovfestival.org

The COPD project develops! Working now with home visits of patients due to the fantastic cooperation with medical and nursing staff in Sandwell and Walsall and the willingness of patients to share their story with us.
With the help of the outstanding preparation of Becky Sexton, researcher and assistant of Multistory, we can make it in a full week of working.

Acompained by good food prepared by our host studio Galembeck, the participants will be engaged with the construction and evaluation of their professional profile, artist statement and portfolio.
Debate about all dillema's professionals face making their next step.

The preparation of the Valongo Festival is in full swing!
It will be held from Oct 12-16 in Santos, Brazil.
I am very happy to be invited to give a lecture and workshop in this fantastic situated festival!

Very proud that I received from the Mayor of Amsterdam the decoration to OFFICER IN THE ORDER OF ORANGE-NASSAU in a festive and cheerful ceremony in the new church in Amsterdam. It was said to be for what they call "my long contrivution to Dutch photography education and promotion of Dutch photography abroad". I am deeple moved by the nomination and the enormous support of so many people. It leeves me speechless!

In a circle of good friends and collegues, I received the Educational Award 2014 in a festive ceremony in London today.
I feel very honored that the Royal Photographic Society has honored a foreign educator for the first time. It means that the Dutch photography now gets international recognition.

From time to time Corinne selects a photo book from her collection and discusses it in a short article.

The narrative of WHAT WE WEAR Pieter van den Boogert

"First this happened, and then this, and then this…

This is how we first share narratives as a child. We recount a series of events in the order they occurred. In some ways, this is the most simple way to tell a story and can be the most useful when talking about something complex. For this reason, it is the #narrative structure Pieter van den Boogert used when making “What we wear”. The story deals with the global clothes market. We see the situation in Bangladesh, where the #clothes are produced, the Netherlands where the clothes are used and then Ghana, where they are finally disposed of.

Because of the size and scope of this #story, the simplest possible narrative became the most effective visual strategy. How do you eliminate enough elements of something as complex as the global clothing industry to shape it into a comprehensible story? By being very strict about what is photographed and by making the visual language very tight. This simplicity and cohesiveness is what gives this story and the photobook its natural flow.

The design also enhances this choice of narrative. Pieter’s book used a leporello format, so the pages could be seen both as a double spread and as a panorama. By turning the page, the viewer seamlessly makes a #journey through one country into another. The folding of the book also references children's books, and our initial 'First this happened, and then this, and then this' narrative. After flowing through the book we are compelled to return to the beginning and make the journey again.

Subtitle of this small booklet that I took home from the Valongo Festival in Santos Brasil, is ‘conto pornográfico’.

Not only are the images wonderfully funny and lighthearted, but also exagarated and playful. The tekst has nothing to do with the imageries, but function as a story in itself. It does give a context though. One that multiplies what is done in the visual!

A good example of a metaphor that gives the opportunity to look at a topic in many ways: landscapes scenes in Holland and Belgium during a film production.
Our notion of romantic landscapes is turned around while a fiction film tries to romanticize reality at the same time.

What a fantastic replenishment to our ideas what our country looks like!

Tom Janssen: "Parade", also aims to show our country from a cultural point of view.

Also look for Loek van Vliet: "Sacred Grounds, Quiet Areas in the Netherlands and Flanders = Heilige gronden, Stiltegebieden in Nederland en Vlaanderen", if you enjoy the real notion of romanticism